Valve reminds everyone that Steam is available for Chromebooks, classic PS1 title Sonic gets major updates, Counter-Strike 2 switches to Wayland for a day, and do you have a backup strategy for your save files?























Subscribe Podcast Index | Spotify | Apple | Pandora | TuneIn | RSS | More















Timestamps:







00:00 Intro01:00 Vibe bashing02:18 Giving ARM a UEFI03:21 Movie time with Jordan09:25 Valve cancels Steam for Chromebooks14:55 Mastercard puts the blame on Steam17:56 Proton experimental updates21:29 Aperture Dating Simulator24:13 Liftoff Micro Drones29:13 CS2 switches back to X1133:42 Sonic on the PS137:23 SaveState universal launcher 1.4.339:03 How do you backup save files?40:14 Fighting with Anubis41:03 Intel kernel temp sensor orphaned













Colour key – Venn Jordan Sandy

Steam: News

Steamy Chrome



*

Pour one out for Steam on Chromebooks.



*

After three years of beta-ness the Chromebook Beta will stop working in early 2026.



*

Remember gaming Chromebooks?



*

ChromeOS will eventually be migrated to Android so it might show up there in the future.



*

Maybe the future is more FEX + proton?







*

I guess less killed by Google and more aborted by Google.



*

An actual release may come out eventually, who knows?



*

That or the stack ranking period for the guy who was pushing Google’s gaming initiative is over









ValveMaster



*

So Valve tried to have a talk with the fkrs.



*

Mastercard told them to pound sand.



*

Then went on to release a statement saying that it hasn’t played a role in placing restrictions on content available on gaming storefronts



*

Mastercard 100% tried to throw Valve under the bus here. It’s hilarious how dishonest they are



*

The phone in campaign for Visa apparently has worked so well the call center staff have lost their mind.



*

They can always just eat their bosses









Ghostpadsense Shock



*

Has your DualSense gamepad been haunted as of late?



*

….yeah, might have run into that this week.



*

Age of empires 3 has a CD key related fix. When was the last time you needed to enter one that wasn’t NWN?



*

No more phantom painful crashes after act 1 and RE8 Village freezies, which got introduced in proton 10







New Games

Aperture Dating Simulator



*

A fully voiced fan game where you try to date Aperture robots?



*

Getting practice for the future.



*

GLaDOS has an army of horny robots.



*